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Greenbelt hits Stage 3 on drought plan
A lack of rain and persistent hot, windy weather has pushed Greenbelt Lake into Stage 3 of its drought contingency plan.
With the reservoir falling below a depth of 51 feet, officials with the Greenbelt Municipal & Industrial Water Authority have begun lowering the levels in municipal storage tanks as a method of conserving water.
Dropping the water tower levels reduces pressure on municipal water systems thereby cutting back on the amount of water going through the system and even reducing leaks in the system.
Greenbelt General Manager Bobbie Kidd says the biggest conservation is coming from the City of Childress, which uses more than 50 percent of the water consumed from the lake.
“We dropped the level in their storage tank by three feet, and that is producing a significant savings,” Kidd said.
The level in Clarendon’s water tower has been dropped ten feet, but Kidd said that was primarily due to a pump at the filter plant being taken offline for maintenance.
Water usage in Hedley is not a problem, Kidd said, and tank levels in Quanah are only kept at 50 percent anyway.
The Greenbelt Reservoir reached Stage 3 on Friday, May 27, and the lake this week is at a depth of 50.91 feet.
Kidd said consumption has come down somewhat in recent days and the decline of the lake seems to be leveling off.
The next trigger in Greenbelt’s drought contingency plan will come if the lake falls another three feet. If that happens, member cities will be asked to implement their own water conservation rules.
The water authority says Greenbelt has only received 0.48 inches of moisture since January 1.
Officials say the weather, not consumption, is the main problem facing the lake right now, but they still encourage everyone to conserve as much water as possible to help protect this vital resource.
Activities set for 134th Sts. Roost Celebration
Plans are ready for the 134th annual Saints’ Roost Celebration to be held this July 1, 2, & 5 in Clarendon.
The weekend will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, when the First Baptist Church hosts a Depression Luncheon at its Downtown Ministry Center, and local merchants will be open for your shopping convenience.
The annual Ranch Rodeo will begin Friday night at the Clarendon Outdoor Entertainment Association’s Arena with announcer Ed Montana. The rodeo begins at 7:30 p.m. with a dance at 9 p.m. featuring the Buster Bledsoe Band. Each night at the rodeo will begin with kids’ events including the Donkey Ride, Steer Ride, and Wild Calf Scramble.
A $200 beef certificate will also be drawn each night at the rodeo grounds.
On Saturday, July 2, Henson’s will host their annual Turtle Race downtown at 1:30 p.m., and local merchants will again have several specials to choose from.
The action will kick off at the rodeo grounds again at 7:30 with the final night of the Ranch Rodeo and a dance at 9 p.m. featuring Tommy Gallagher & Brimstone.
Independence Day will begin on Monday, July 4, at 10 a.m. with the Kids’ Tricycle/Bicycle Parade, and the Craft Fair on the Courthouse Square followed by the Old Settlers’ Reunion at 10:30.
The Al Morrah Shrine Club will hold their annual barbecue at 11 a.m., and the Western Parade will begin at 2 p.m. followed by the Lions Club Cow Patty Bingo.
The COEA will close out the July Fourth celebration with a Junior Ranch Rodeo at 7:30 p.m. followed by a dance at 9 p.m. with music provided by Trevor Leeper.
If any other events are being planned this Saints’ Roost Celebration, please contact the
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CC announces the addition of NJCAA men’s golf
Under the direction of newly appointed Athletic Director John Green, Clarendon College announces that the college will participate in NJCAA Men’s Golf starting the Fall 2011.
The Clarendon College Board of Regents has approved the new sports addition and the NJCAA has accepted the college’s request and approved Clarendon College for intercollegiate play starting immediately.
The team will be coached by John Green who has coached a highly successful junior college golf program. In four years, Coach Green had four nationally ranked squads qualifying for the NJCAA National Golf Tournament and finishing in the Top 20 in the nation all four years. The successes of the golfers under Green’s program have been recruited by many high profile programs across the United States.
The college has already started recruiting a team for this upcoming season.
Coach Green is known for recruiting the best talent around the world and has elevated and promoted numerous players to universities ranging from DI to NAIA level. Coach Green is busy recruiting and has verbal commitments from two golfers from United Kingdom.
Alex Palomeque and Jake Bond from England as well as Chris Fletcher, a transfer from California who also hails from England, are processing the paperwork to join the Bulldog golf squad.
Coach Green is eager to hear from any of the highly competitive golfers from across the Panhandle who would be interested in joining the team. Recruiting will continue throughout the summer until the 15 player squad is filled.
The Clarendon College golf team will compete in 10 of the most prestigious tournaments across the Texas/New Mexico area. Green expects the team to immediately step into the national spotlight and be ranked in the Top 20 in the nation.
“I am confident the team will be selected to compete in the NJCAA National Golf Tournament in the Fall 2012,” Green said.
The Bulldog golf program will be the 9th program featured at Clarendon College. The sports include Volleyball, Baseball, Softball, Men’s and Women’s Cross Country, Men’s and Women’s Basketball, and Rodeo. Also under the athletic department competitive teams are the Livestock and Meats Judging Teams and the Ranch Horse Team.
Supporting the teams is a dynamic Cheerleader Squad.
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Service honors Confederate soldier
Members of the Plemons-Shelby Camp 464 of The Sons of the Confederate Veterans, dressed in authentic uniforms and arms and recognized the service of the late Peru Hardy Benson during the War Between the States.
Camp Commander Mike Moore of Amarillo addressed those in attendance and gave a short history of the causes of session and factors leading to the downfall of the South. He noted that slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War and drew attention to unfair taxes levied on the South by the Northern controlled Congress.
Moore also discussed the different heritages of Confederate soldiers, including those of Mexican, Nova Scotian, and Cherokee descent, and he said the South and the nation had come a long ways in terms of people getting along with each other.
Moore himself said he is a liberal Democrat who believes Barack Obama to be the smartest US president behind only Thomas Jefferson. He noted that the Sons of the Confederate Veterans is gaining black members who, through intermarriage are descended from Confederate soldiers, and later said that the Plemons-Shelby Camp has about 30 members which includes three Democrats, an atheist, and an agnostic.
Benson was a Prisoner of War who spent two years in Yankee prisons and was among a group of Confederates who became known as the “Immortal Six Hundred” because of the number who survived deliberate starvation, exposure to freezing weather, lack of sanitation, lack of medical care, physical abuse by the guards, and imprisonment in the line of fire.
Moore said in his memoirs, Benson wrote that he and his fellow captives were fed mush with worms in it and that a friend once counted more than 70 worms in a half pint of mush before he quit counting and started eating before the worms got it all.
“Mr. Benson was brave and literate and a credit to his community and the South,” Moore said.
Following the war, Benson settled in Hall County where he died on October 14, 1906. His family still owns some of property he settled near Brice, and his grandson, C.L. Benson, lives in Clarendon.
Moore said many former Confederates settled in the southeast Panhandle and joint reunions with Rebels and Yankees were common in Clarendon and Memphis for many years before they were moved to Amarillo in 1950s.
Monday’s service was closed with a 21-gun salute from the muskets of the Confederate descendants.
Earlier in the day, the Plemons-Shelby Camp attended a Memorial Day service hosted by the American Legion Post in Hedley, which was scheduled to be in Rowe Cemetery but was moved to the Lions Club building due to high winds. A separate Memorial Day service was held at the same time in Clarendon at the Donley County War Memorial by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
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